Surprisingly awesome!

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 2005)

Well, first off, let me say that I had many apprehensions about The Island and its potential for sucketude. However, it pleases me to say that those apprehensions are now laid firmly to rest. It totally ROCKED! Very fun, very exciting, smart, funny, thrilling...it did everything it set out to. Sure, the lighting was odd here and there, and there were lots of shaky camera/fast-cut scenes (and other sub-par trademark qualities of a typical Michael Bay film), but damn...this was just fine. Ewan McGregor, whom I've always liked, acted better than ever, and Scarlett Johansen was just wonderful (but of course!). Djimon Hounsou once again proves to be one of the leading most underrated actors - he's simply amazing. Sean Bean was great, too, but he really needs to have a starring role sometime. Oh, it was just great. Very well-done. Michael Bay...not bad. Not bad at all.